Source: ANN
The Japanese government issued a formal statement of requests to the government of the United States on regulatory reform and market competition policy on October 18, and included a request for the United States to help stop the unauthorized reproduction and distribution of Japanese animation online. Specifically, the formal statement mentions the spread of Japanese animation and other materials on video-sharing sites and peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
A formal statement eh?…hmm… This is first time I ever heard of such a statement that involves 2 countries. I guess file sharing is reaching its doom pretty soon and my theory of having big sized hdd recorders and VCRs is pretty much true. Time to dump them! and time to save up for R2 releases !
Well, I would leave that up to them to put up requests to streaming bodies like Youtube to take down the videos. Just look at the amount, it is overwhelming. (lol) I would wait and see how this is gonna turn out. What are you guys’ opinions ?
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October 24th, 2007 at 11:56 am #thenightsshadow
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
October 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm #alethal
Now now, its seems like a war is brewing.
Lets see how the American side response. Actually I can’t wait to see DB fansubs to get caught first. The other fansubs are fine.
Lets sit back n relax.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:02 pm #MistaYoH
meh…… just try. just try to catch the thousand and one subbers out there in america….
October 24th, 2007 at 12:13 pm #kiryuu
From what I’ve understood half of the time the RAWs come from Japan to begin with… a bit lopsided in the request I’d say ^^;;
October 24th, 2007 at 12:26 pm #choco
YEAH try and catch all the subbers. Why issued this now when you could have done it years ago? The American side better not agree with them.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:03 pm #westbluef
It’s either they succeed or fail..
If they successes there are 2 things that will happen, either the entire industry will go down or fansubers will have to go for drastic measures of releases (i.e. darknets) another amount of money from Japan and if they fail well life goes on…
October 24th, 2007 at 1:43 pm #Mike
The way to shut down the fansub community isn’t to go after fansubbers. All they have to do is cut it off at the source–the suppliers of raws. No raws, no basis for fansubs, and no fansub community.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:46 pm #Mike
There’s an easy way to stop fansubs. It’s not to go after fansubbers, but to go after the people uploading raws. If they can successfully do that–and most likely these people are Japanese and therefore within the right jurisdiction–they can shut down the bulk of the fansub community. Of course, given how successful American TV companies are in preventing episodes of their TV shows from getting torrents up, I’m not sure they will have any greater success anyway.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:24 pm #randomguy
It’s pretty much a stupid idea.
If the US does agree to it, this is what happens, companies won’t know what to license because they can’t see how many people are actually interesting into it. So if you license something noone has interest in, its a profit loss right there. Not to mention, most of the DVDs that are brought, people has watched it before or have been spread through word of mouth on how good or bad it is.
Noone is going to buy something they have no information on, or maybe a good title, but thats not gonna last very long if its the only way it sells. Basically when the licensing companies are not making profit or they have no idea on what to licensing so they will gain profit, they won’t license animations from Japan, and with that, Japan will lose some of its profits.
But pretty sure, anime will still be on the web, just not as public.
Long version of what the above post said really.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:38 pm #Hiyuu
If ONLY…
1) Japan releases DVDs of anime.
2) Japan provides other countries (US/East Asia) with RAWs SCRIPT.
3) US/East Asia subs and releases DVDs under Japan studio Q.C. to ensure even quality. English/Chinese dubs are optional.
4) We buy the DVDs.
5) Everyone’s happy :D
October 24th, 2007 at 5:39 pm #Runningkid
how come they are always thinking of ways to shut the community down… -.-
October 24th, 2007 at 6:04 pm #oOgA
@Runningkid
yea..everyone should watch sailormoon since new animes wont reach overseas shores until a very long time.
@Hiyuu
If only we can have a lot of IFs
October 24th, 2007 at 8:05 pm #Chraen
Oh great. Now everyone can forget about fansubbed anime -_-
I hope they don’t do anything about NicoVideo…
October 24th, 2007 at 8:41 pm #griever
I think the US will give it far less priority than going after Hollywood movies and US TV shows because that’s where the obvious money lies…but that might just be my wishful thinking.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:27 pm #Hiyuu
Well IF all else fails, hope that IF some businessman comes along, sets up a company, recruits good translators and MAYBE even fansubbers who are willing to do subbing as a part-time/full-time job, and start releasing DVDs.
Unfortunately, the world is short of the letters I and F.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:43 am #oru
shit its like the end is coming.. for the international anime comunity..
October 25th, 2007 at 3:45 pm #TP
Please do not overreact. This is just a formal request by the Japanese companies to their American counterparts. The real question, then, is when sentry companies starts coming in.
Time to raise the Pirate Flag.